Comments on: How to create your own Windows file sharing server to share large files

By: Niko

Niko — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:17:22 +0000

OH MY GOSH! This little program was exactly what I needed for our intranet. I was dreading having to set up PHP/Apache or IIS and trolling the internet finding scripts just to reliably display the contents of some of our shared directories on our LAN. It seemed like so much work for something so simple. HFS is amazing! Thank you for posting this information.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:29:34 +0000

Manohar, you are a dumbass. This is a program for a simple, quick, lightweight file server. Why would someone with a linux server even be here?

By: Manohar Kuse

Manohar Kuse — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:02:50 +0000

Dear all,

Please consider using linux. Itz made for networks. You can setup an ftp server, which is much easier to setup on linux than on windows

By: Cramer

Cramer — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:52:28 +0000

Thank you so much for writing about this! I’m glad I found your site. I tried to setup and FTP server using IIS, but that was a diaster.

HTTP File Server is absolutely great. I was able to set it up in a few hours and can now share large files with all my clients securely. Sweet!

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:21:04 +0000

Wamp2 also delivers MySQL in the same package.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:19:38 +0000

I’ve used xerver (http://www.javascript.nu/xerver/) for years. It does ftp and http and even supports php, so you can create some nice looking programs. Simple little javascript webserver.

Another option is to download Wamp2 server. It’s a complete php, apache, web server solution all in one package. I run it at work for my peers. It’s surprisingly easy to setup and lets you run complete full featured websites.

I’m going to try this though.. looks pretty cool. For FTP, I used BulletProof FTP (http://www.bpftp.com/) some too. It’s not free.. but lots of free versions on torrent sites, so actually it is.

By: along

along — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:27:59 +0000

actually i already use this hfs. but now i got a problem. last time i am using direct connection to internet. but now i’m in a small network at my house. i use two pc and using a network to connect to the internet. but i cannot use hfs. i give my internet ip to my internet friend and ask him to connect to my hfs use my internet ip from his house. so many times we was tried to connect but still failed. please help me.

By: How to setup an FTP server in Windows using IIS

How to setup an FTP server in Windows using IIS — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:58:42 +0000

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By: akishore

akishore — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:47:32 +0000

Damian, that would be great if you could list out a couple of those programs for us. I’ve personally always found it takes a good amount of setup to get an FTP server running on my local computer, especially when you have to deal with opening ports in your firewall, etc. Thanks

By: damian

damian — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:38:39 +0000

Ok, it is just like an ftp server, but in http.
“the problem with sharing files using an FTP server is that you either have to purchase space on a third party server and set it up yourself,…”

You don’t need to do that. You can configure easily an ftp server on your Wxp with easy-to-use programs…

There is no advantage in using this.

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:59:25 +0000

This is great for sharing files in our college .